Smart Company Project: Hospital Logistics
Hospital Logistics ensures that healthcare institutions can focus on their core task of administering care to their patients. Hospital Logistics provides everything needed to optimally fulfil this job. This ranges from consolidated purchasing through stock management and picking & packing for all sterile and non-sterile medical consumables to in-house delivery and administrative processing at departmental level. Hospital Logistics helps healthcare institutions devise and implement the most optimal integrated process from supplier to patient.
What was needed?
Hospital Logistics asked for an application that facilitates the ordering process of products. Healthcare workers have to be able to easily and quickly replenish their department’s stock of consumable goods (e.g. syringes, masks, gloves…).
The second thing Hospital Logistics asked for was a web shop. A specific web environment where all of Hospital Logistics’ products are displayed. On this web shop clients have to be able to order certain products (not just the ones their department needs) in larger quantities and across departments.
What Sirus provided
Sirus developed the Kanban application in collaboration with Continuum. This app remembers the stock of every department (what are the exact quantities of a product needed in a specific department). Subsequently, when someone of a particular department places an order to refill a product, the app knows exactly how much to supply. By scanning a barcode, the stock of the product that had run out is automatically supplemented.
Throughout the project Sirus realised the Kanban application and web shop could be intertwined. Both systems are combined in Appsuite and use the same service and backend, but with different specifications and interfaces. The ordering process is different but the underlying flow is the same. Eventually, combining the Kanban application with the web shop also resulted in a time and efficiency gain for the project.
Technicalities of the project
Environment:
- Progressive Web Application
- Azure Servicebus
- Azure Serverless services
- MSSQL
- Docker Services
- Keycloak
Components:
- SAP
Frameworks:
- Angular
- .NET Core 3.1/ .NET 5.0
- EF Core
- Ms test
Tooling:
- Azure Cloud Services
- Azure Devops
Timeline
Planning
The first steps
Designing a roadmap
Estimate the duration of the project
Offer support
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What's next?
Even though the primary demand of the company has been met, Sirus still has a lot of possible innovations and expansions up its sleeve. As an example, the app can also be opened up to consumers (B2C) instead of only to companies (B2B). Providing special promotions for consumers adds a meaningful functionality to the app. As for wat follows, we will also provide an overview of all deliveries. In short, we continue to look at further customer requirements and how to implement these solutions in the existing platform.
What our Sirus’ members think about the case
What the client thinks about the case
“I am really satisfied with this project. The Sirus and Continuum team really put a lot of effort in this case. We had worked with Continuum before when they mentioned to bring in Sirus for the backend development of the webshop and Kanban application. They turned out to be the right partner for this job.
For me it was important that the team knew what our business was about. When the Sirus’ team members came over I showed them around our company and explained what our stock includes, what sort of products we deliver and how our service is organized. I could see that they were genuinely interested in our business. I noticed a clear difference between before this company tour and after. When they were able to see the “consumables” we provide to healthcare facilities, they gained a clear understanding of what they were building the application for.
This understanding helped them, and us, to create the optimal user interface, software architecture and underlying framework tailored to the customer and our needs.
Another positive element of this collaboration is that both teams (Sirus and Continuum) remained present during the aftermath of the launch. When we were presenting this system to one of our customers and a discrepancy came up, they immediately sorted out a solution not to inconvenience the users. I appreciate the Sirus team’s continued support.
I hope to continue this efficient cooperation with Sirus and I am certain that more projects will follow in the future.”
Thomas Havermans, IT Manager at Hospital Logistics
Smart Company Project
At Sirus, innovation is at our core. We strive to help build the Smart Companies of the future, and Hospital Logistics is now part of this innovative future. We are proud to be a part of this collaboration, and if you are to – be sure to follow us on LinkedIn for updates!
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